In recent years there has been an increasing awareness that nutrition, diets and food not only play a pivotal role in promoting human and animal well-being and health, but have also a profound effect on the wellbeing of our planet as they steer usage of natural resources. Nutrition, diets and food must be intelligently developed to provide an effective action on human and animal well-being and health and promote sustainable use of natural resources.

In this framework, the School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, focuses its research activities on the understanding of the biological and behavioral determinants of food intake, including sensory qualities and satiety as well as the diet-mediated physiological changes on the transition between healthy and unhealthy or dysregulated states; promotes nutritional education; supports sustainability of food production to pursue quality and safety of food and feed; designs nutritional strategies to increase animal welfare and productive performances in zootechnics; actively collaborates with the food and feed industry to drive innovation towards healthy food products and to develop food and feed to meet specific needs of consumers.